Re: dpkg-query - package "un"packed, no version ???

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2013-09-02, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Where or how do you get "no package description" for those packages?
>> What command are you using?
>
> dpkg -l
>

curty@einstein:~$ dpkg -l vim-dbg
No packages found matching vim-dbg.
curty@einstein:~$ dpkg-query --list vim-dbg
No packages found matching vim-dbg.

curty@einstein:~$ dpkg -l vim-doc
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                 Version              Description
+++-====================-====================-============================
un  vim-doc              <none>               (no description available)

I don't understand as you're not cutting and pasting you're output.  You're not
getting the same output as me apparently.